Algernon Sidney: Martyr for Liberty
For myself, I can hardly consider the name of Algernon Sidney as anything other than an American name, — American in all its associations, and American in all its influences, — and not unworthy to be held up with the proudest and loftiest names of our own land, to the contemplation and admiration of every son and every daughter of our beloved Union. — Robert Winthrop, spoken at a Sidney memorial held in 1853 in Boston
Can you believe that a man who Thomas Jefferson said wrote the “best elementary book of the principles of government” that our youth should read “as soon as their minds are sufficiently matured” is all but forgotten by Americans today?
Can you believe that a book that Thomas Jefferson identified as one of the primary sources for the principles of the Declaration of Independence is not found in the home of every American patriot?
Can you believe that a book that Jefferson and James Madison mandated that every incoming student at the University of Virginia had to read before matriculating is a book nearly no one in America today has even heard of?
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